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5 The Levant
Get accessStephen Minta is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York (UK). He has written on a range of topics in French, Italian, Latin American, and English literature. He has written two travel books: Aguirre: The Re-Creation of a Sixteenth-Century Journey across South America, which was a New York Times Notable Book for 1994, and On a Voiceless Shore: Byron in Greece.
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Published:22 May 2024
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Abstract
The chapter takes, as its geographical heart, the shores of the Mediterranean. The term ‘Romantic Levant’ has been applied to countries as far east as Syria, Persia, the Holy Land, and Afghanistan, but the idea of the Levant as constituted by the Eastern Mediterranean is well established in critical writing of the twenty-first century, as it was in earlier times: ‘the Word [Levant] is generally restrain’d to the Mediterranean Sea’ (Chambers Cyclopaedia, 1728). In the Romantic tradition, the Levant held a promise of diversity that would allow the traveller to escape what Philip Mansel calls ‘the prisons of nationality and religion’. The chapter looks at a variety of travellers, with a variety of motives, commercial, military, or simply personal. The list of travellers includes Lord Byron, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Lady Hester Stanhope, Edward Daniel Clarke, Elizabeth Lady Craven, John Galt, and Thomas Hope.
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